Hotels, Princeton, MA - Summit, House, Mount Wachusett - second structure, 1884-1907

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Hotels, Princeton, MA - Summit, House, Mount Wachusett - second structure, 1884-1907

Subject

Wachusett Mountain (Mass.)--History--Pictorial works; Hotels--Massachusetts--Princeton; Summer resorts--Massachusetts--Princeton; Mountains--Massachusetts--Princeton; Windmills

Description

The second Summit House built in 1884 by Phineas A. Beaman on the top of Mount Wachusett in Princeton, Massachusetts. Called the "Tip Top", the hotel contained 30 rooms with water supplied by the windmill on the shore of Summit Pond. Tourist business was very brisk during the season that ran from May 20 to October 15th and was estimated to be around 30,000 visitor a year at its peak. Stagecoaches would pick up patrons from the Princeton Train Depot and bring them to the top of Mount Wachusett.

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Date

1884-1900?

Relation

Is part of the collection of the Princeton Historical Society, http://www.princetonmahistory.org housed in the Princeton Public Library, http://www.princetonpubliclibrary.org Goodnow Memorial Building, Princeton, Massachusetts.

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image/jpg

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en-US

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Image

Identifier

PHS-2007-11-100-001

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Citation

“Hotels, Princeton, MA - Summit, House, Mount Wachusett - second structure, 1884-1907,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 22, 2013, http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/1024.

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